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The dirty cheating French were sent home packing.

The big bad French boys lost to lowly South Africa 2-1.

This was an utterly horrible display of futebol that I have seen in many a moon.

 If you remember it was Zinedine whose world famous head butt cost the French the 2006 World Cup title.

The French cheated into the World Cup now the Frogs are paying the price for their lying cheating ways.

I love it.

France has no wins, one draw, and two losses.

Voce Vai.

Uruguay won Group A by defeating Mexico 1-0.

Both Mexico and Uruguay both advance to the knockout round.

South Africa finished their World Cup play with one win, one loss, and one tie.

Both Mexico and South Africa were tied with four points each but Mexico advanced on a better goal difference.

Mexico has a plus one while South Africa is a minus 2.

Good show South Africa.

Argentina scored two late second half goals en route to a 2-1 win over Greece.

Argentinos breezed thru Group B gobbling up the full amount of points six.

Maybe Maradona is learning how to manage big time futebol.

Messi was used as the lone striker while Tevez was given the day off.

Argentina has the strongest strike force in the world-Messi, Tevez, and Higuain.

Add to the mix Maxi Rodriguez, Martin Palermo, and Gabriel Heinze and Argentina is down right dangerous.

Argentina still has a great shot to win the World Cup.

It would be great to have a Brasil-Argentina World Cup final.

Here’s some food for thought.

The South American clubs have not lost a single match.

Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Paraguay are showing the rest of the world where the real futebol powers are.

It sure as hell isn’t in Europe.

England, France, Italy, Germany are playing like crap.

They stink.

Nigeria and South Korea tied at two all.

South Korea gets their ticket punched to the knockout stage.

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Spain was one of the teams favored to win the World Cup. However, a funny on the way to being crowned champ Spain lost to Switzerland 1-0.

Gelson Fernandez ripped the winner in the 52^nd minute.

Spain keeper Iker Casillas was forced to leave his line. He blocked the initial shot but the ball squirted free. Then a scramble ball ensued. Gelson Fernandez knocked home the gimmie ball.

This was all she wrote baby.

A real good win for the Swiss.

A little side note, no team that has lost its opening World Cup match has won the World Cup title.

We will see.

Spain was missing Fernando Torres and Cesc Fabregas.

This was a real kick in the nuts.

I still think Spain will make it out of the group stage and challenge for the title.

Chile shut out Honduras 1-0.

Jean Beausejour scored on a nifty goal in the 34^th minute.

His mate Sanchez threaded the needle with a perfect pass that spilt the seam in the defense.

Uruguay blasted the home side South Africa 3-0.

The Africans had their lunch handle to them.

In plain and simple English South Africa stunk the joint out.

Diego Forlan hit for the daily double. He struck for pay dirt in the 24^th and 80^th minutes.

Alvaro ripped the twines in the 90^th minute for Uruguay’s other tally.

What a day full of surprises.

Let’s what tomorrow holds.

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Two matches kicked off the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Mexico and South Africa tied one all.

France and Uruguay kissed their sister nil-nil.

These two results were surprises.

The Mexican squad had most of the chances but South Africa drew first blood in the 55^th minute.

South Africa forced a turnover at midfield. Wham, bam, boom, South Africa heads down the pitch in a matter of seconds. Siphiwe Tshabalala rips a shot top shelf left. Mexican keeper Oscar Perez got his paw on the ball but that didn’t stop the ball from finding the back of the net. 

Mexico found the equalizer in the 79^th minute. Rafael Marquez ripped a deadly shot from just inside the right of the box. His laser was unstoppable.

Marquez flat out beat three South African defenders.

Mexico should have won but they had their first goal called back due to an offside call.

Still the South African squad has to be pleased with the tie.

Mexico out played them but wound up with a tie.

This could hurt Mexico.

France and Uruguay stunk the joint out in nil-nil adventure. France had the most of the touches in the box but the French couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn with a machine gun.

12 shots and three were on goal.

This sucks.

So, it goes for the cheaters from France.

This serves the French right.

Uruguay’s Nicholas Lodeiro was given the heave-hoe in the 81^st minute.

There are two huge matches on Saturday.

England and the USA will duke it out.

Argentina has a fight on their hands when they battle Nigeria.

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This is the day we have been waiting for.  

The World Cup begins today.

South Africa battles Mexico while Uruguay takes France.

Happy days are here again.

Brasil is one of the prohibitive favorites to win the whole shooting match.

Led by Kaka, Robinho, Maicon, Juan, Dani Alves, and the superman in goal Julio Cesar Brasileiros are a team to be reckoned with.

These cats are hungry to prove they can win without the super stars of the past-Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaucho and the rest of the fat fading stars.

Kaka and the guys have a chip on their shoulders.

Brasileiros are in a very hard group.

Check this group out.

Group D has Brasil, Portugal, Ivory Coast, and North Korea.

This is truly the Group of death.

Brasil will win hands down.

Dunga has put together a team that has size and speed.

Besides that, these cats can flat out rip the twines.

Don’t forget Dunga has taught them to play tough nosed “D”.

Globo Esporte wrote that Kaka and Robinho have led this squad to 28 wins and four draws.

These two guys make a deadly duo.

 Globo Esporte put it this way-Kaká é a principal estrela da seleção brasileira que vai disputar a Copa do Mundo a partir do dia 15, na África do Sul. Robinho é o símbolo da Era Dunga. Juntos, os dois se tornaram imbatíveis sob o comando do treinador. Em 32 jogos, a dupla obteve 28 vitórias e quatro empates. Derrotas? Nem em sonho. O aproveitamento é de 91,6%.

Atuando ao lado de Robinho, Kaká é o artilheiro da dupla. O apoiador do Real Madrid marcou 14 gols nas 32 partidas. O Rei das Pedaladas, por sua vez, deixou a sua marca em oito oportunidades. Sem contar os jogos da parceria, o jogador do Santos balançou a rede 19 vezes e é o goleador ao lado de Luis Fabiano.

God forbid if Brasil fails to win this baby.

Dunga will be shot at dusk.

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We have the final tune up before the 2010 World Cup kicks off in June in South Africa. Brasil battles Ireland at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday March 2^nd.

This will be Dunga’s last chance to tweak the line up and see which players will make the final World Cup squad.

Sure, bets are Robinho, Kaka, Cesar, Luis Fabiano, Maicon, Lucio, Daniel Alves, and Felipe Melo.

This is just a partial list.

Adriano will be teamed with Robinho up front. I sure hope this works out. Adriano is still very iffy.

This is my take on the situation.

Please Dunga whatever you do not and I repeat do not include the head case Ronaldinho and the fat old man Ronaldo on the squad.

Please for this will surely ruin the team chemistry.

In plain and simple English, this will kill the team.

Globo Esporte had this to say http://globoesporte.globo.com/ Adriano deve ser o substituto de Luis Fabiano no ataque da seleção brasileira para o amistoso contra a Irlanda. O atacante do Flamengo participou entre os titulares da movimentação tática comandada pelo técnico Dunga nesta segunda-feira, no Emirates Stadium, em Londres, na Inglaterra. O “Fabuloso” foi cortado por causa de uma lesão muscular no peito.
A outra novidade foi a escalação de Ramires no meio-campo. Os titulares treinaram com Julio César: Maicon, Lucio, Juan e Michel Bastos; Gilberto Silva, Felipe Melo, Ramires e Kaká; Robinho e Adriano. A partida é a última antes da convocação final para a Copa do Mundo da África do Sul.  

Brasilian superstar Kaka is worried that the guys may wind up getting hurt. UOL reported www.uol.com.br O temor a respeito de lesão foi levantado nesta segunda-feira por Kaká, um dia antes do amistoso da seleção brasileira contra a Irlanda em Londres (o jogo acontece nesta terça, às 17h05, de Brasília, com acompanhamento do Placar UOL Esporte).

“A gente vive a expectativa antes de cada convocação. Mas é um passo de cada vez. São dois meses até a próxima convocação, muita coisa pode acontecer. Não dá para entrar em campo pensando em não se machucar, mas o jeito é orar e esperar para que nada aconteça, porque jogamos no limite todo final de semana”, disse Kaká antes do treino da seleção desta tarde no Emirates Stadium, em Londres.

These fears are real. All one has to do is look at what happened to Arsenal’s RVP in a friendly World Cup match.

Lets hope Kaka and the guys come home unscathed.

We need to be at full strength to win this sucker.

I said we for I am an America with a Brasileiro heart.

My wife is Brasilian. Besides that, I love Brasil futebol.

I am a Flamenguista through and through. My family is Flamenguistas too.   

This is my passion.

On Wednesday, there will be a full tilt of World Cup friendly match ups.

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